The MEK and its
apologists (the Iran
Policy Committee, the Organization
of Iranian-American Communities, and
others) today claim that a "Marxist splinter group" killed four
U.S. officers and three civilian contractors working for Rockwell
International in the 1970s, and that the MEK never committed
terrorist acts against Americans.

But these official
bulletins published by the group after the 1979 revolution, when Rajavi was out
of jail and in full command of the group, prove the contrary.

• In the June 4, 1980 edition of
"Mojahid," the group reveal that it assassinated the deputy
chief of the U.S. military mission in Iran, Col. Lewis Hawkins, on
June 5, 1973, calling him "one of the criminal agents of U.S.
Imperialism in Iran."

• In the May 31, 1980 edition of
"Mojahid," the group commemorated the 8th anniversary
of the assassination of USAF Gen. Harold Price, chief of the Air
Force section of the U.S. Military Advisory Group in Iran, killed
by an MEK car bomb on May 31, 1972. " Because of this explosion,
[President] Nixon's visit was delayed for 45 minutes and the visit
took place in a fearful atmosphere," they write.

The
MEK and its apologists claim the group is pro-American,
and supports free-market policies. But the MEK welcomed the
decision by Khomeini to sever diplomatic ties with the United
States in April 1980, calling for the creation of "another
Vietnam."

The
MEK and its apologists claim the group is pro- Israel. But
Rajavi welcomed Arafat when he came to
Tehran after the Islamic revolution in 1979,
and presented a machine-gun to Arafat "as a pledge of support
from the MKO of Iran." The citation contineus: "In the
hope of meeting in a free Quds [Jerusalem], a meeting in which
none of the region's reactionaries are present."

1993: International Iran
Times claims
MEK has won support of new Clinton-Gore administration.1994 State Department
report on the MEK. In response to requests from Congress,
the State Department produced a damning report in October 1994 on
the MEK that laid out the evidence for the U.S. government's
determination that the MEK was a terrorist organization. The
report names the americans killed by the MEK in the 1970s,
describes its support for the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran
in Nov. 1979, its ongoing support for the Khomeini regime until
the split in 1981; its alliance with Saddam Hussein, and more.
This is the report the MEK can't get beyond.

MEK effots to buy
influence in Congress. The Iran Brief, run by FDI President
Kenneth Timmerman in the 1990s, was the first to expose the MEK's
efforts to buy members of the U.S. Congress through campaign
donations in 1997.

"Torricelli's
Terrorist
List Friends" - 1998 story from the American Spectator that
took the Iran Brief revelations of MEK campaign donations to a
wider public. When Torricelli was running for re-election to the
U.S. Senate, he dropped his support
for the group as soon as he was challenged to defend them by his
Republican opponent.

Operation
Suture: FBI penetration of MEK Camp Ashraf in the mid-1980s
found that the group continued to celebrate its May 31, 1972
murder of U.S. Air Force Brigadir General Harold Price and other
U.S. officers assassinated by the group with commemorative songs
and festivities.

2002 FBI report. The FBI has conducted
multiple investigations of the MEK over the years. In 2002, they
were tasked to determine whether the NCRI was separate from the MEK
(or, as they called it, the PMOI), for purposes of the State
Department terrorism designation.

As part of their investigation, they
conducted several raids on an MEK safe house in Falls Church,
Virginia, FBI agents found that the MEK had drained an indoor
swimming pool in the house and covered it over. "The area above
the pool was divided into offices. In one of these offices, a
hatch in the floor led into the drained swimming pool," which they
used to store "flags, t-shirts, magazines, and other PMOI, NCR,
and NLA paraphernalia."

The FBI found there was no separation between the three
organizations. "In sum, the
FBI's investigation revealed that in the United States and
elsewhere, the PMOI and the NCRI are not in actuality separate
organizations... Thus, the FBI's investigation has
confirmed that the NCRI operates as an alias of the PMOI, despite
whatever claims these entities make publicly that may fool
outsiders, and even some of those inside the entities."

The Bob Ney
about-face

One of the delicious
sidebars of the MEK story is the 180 degree pivot of Rep. Bob Ney,
who had taken $4,000 from MEK members in 1995 before their
lobbying campaign was exposed by FDI. In April 2003, Ney wrote a
scathing letter to The
Hill newspaper
denouncing the "outright lies, exaggerations and deceptions" used
by the group. Ney blasted the MEK for using "dozens of pseudonyms,
such as the National Council of Resistance and the People's
Movement of Iran, to hide contributions and spread its propaganda"
and its close ties to Saddam Hussein. Ney also blasted the group
for faking its support in Congress, and said that the reason the
group steadfastly refuses to publish the names of Members of
Congress who signed a letter of support last November is because
the list "does not exist." He went on: "At one point, it may have;
in fact, when MEK representatives first visited my office several
years ago, preaching democracy for Iran, I was glad to join them
in what appeared to be their effort. However, I quickly discovered
that the MEK are not the proponents of democracy they claim to be
but are in fact documented terrorists with a history of killing
American citizens and supporting Saddam Hussein."

Just one month
later, we discovered
that Bob Ney had joined up with Trita Parsi and his newly-formed
National Iranian-American Council. Here's how we announced the new
marriage at the time:

May 22, 2003: Exiles call for protest
of pro-Tehran meetings in California next week. A new
pro-Tehran lobbying group, the "National Iranian American
Council," an apparent successor to Housang Amirahmadi's American
Iranian Council, plans to hold two meetings in California on May
30 and May 31, which have angered Iranian-Americans seeking to
promote democracy in Iran. Among the announced speakers are U.S.
Representatives Bob Ney
(R, Ohio) and Mike Honda (D, CA). The opposition groups have
called on supporters to protest the pro-Tehran meetings at the
following times and locations...

2004 FBI report. The FBI
Los Angeles field office prepared a lengthy report on the MEK that
listed all known MEK members who had been arrested in the Los
Angeles area. The report also includes a "field guide" for
investigators going to Camp Ashraf. FBI agents interviewed some 175
MEK defectors in Iraq. This is the most exhaustive US government
investigation into the MEK to date, aimed at determining with
defector claims to MEK torture and abuse were accurate, or whether
the MEK had simply been "slandered" by Iranian regime supporters,
as the group claims. The report states that FBI Los Angeles is
still processing some of
their information in view of future prosecutions of the MEK.

2005
Human Rights Watch report on abuses by the MEK of its own
members. Most of the information in this report comes from former
MEK members, some of whom acknowledge they have gone back to Iran.

2006 MEK
Chronology (compiled by former MEK members possibly
associated with the Iranian regime)

Earlier FDI reports:

March
1, 2001:Mujahedin
fund-raising ring leaders arrested: The FBI arrested 7
members of the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) at
Los Angeles International airport on Feb. 28, on charges of
illegal fund-raising for a terrorist organization. The PMOI,
also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), was using a fake
human rights organization as a front for funding military
activities in Iraq. According to FBI witnesses inside the
fund-raising network, all the money raised for unsuspecting
travelers and from Iranian-Americans was shipped to Turkey and
the United Arab Emirates to buy military equipment for the
group's National Liberal Army, based in Iraq.

August
9, 1999: Fom the July issue of The Iran Brief. We
carried an exclusive investigation exposing Mujahedin
fund-raising in Holland, and recent MEK campaign to buy
influence in the U.S. Congress.